Deck 16: Architecture

Question 1

One of the earliest surviving photographs is a still life by Daguerre featuring:

A) words, pictures, and tree bark, on a table
B) grapes, sculptures, and a mirror, in a bowl
C) plaster casts, a framed picture, and a wine flask, by a window
D) books, flowers, and a water jar, in a library
E) vegetables, musical instruments, and plates, on a shelf

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Daguerreotypes are made on ________.

A) celluloid film
B) handmade paper
C) polished metal plates
D) glass
E) canvas

Answer 2

C

Question 3

When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?

A) 1300s
B) 1500s
C) 1600-1750
D) early 1800s
E) 1900-50

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In his photograph Two Ways of Life, Oscar Gustav Rejlander employed methods that emulated the process of ________.

A) painting
B) coloring books
C) encyclopedias
D) the silhouette machine
E) digital art

Question 5

The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ________.

A) a horse-drawn carriage
B) a human eye
C) an oil-powered lamp
D) a convection oven
E) a telephone

Question 6

Which of the following photographers is best known for making portraits?

A) Nadar
B) Anna Atkins
C) Abelardo Morell
D) Hannah Höch
E) Ansel Adams

Question 7

Match the early photographic innovator with his invention:

Question 8

Landscape photographs, such as those taken by Ansel Adams, help raise awareness about:

A) road safety and traffic rules for travelers
B) historical events on East Coast battlefields
C) how to find the best apple trees at Baxter Farms
D) nature's grandeur and the wilderness of the American West
E) how to find water in the desert

Question 9

In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________.

A) fun
B) colorful
C) truthful
D) surrealistic
E) none of the other answers

Question 10

A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________.

A) it creates very detailed images
B) daguerreotypes can be made very quickly
C) it records color
D) daguerreotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced
E) it can photograph in the dark

Question 11

What does the word "photograph" mean?

A) writing with light
B) signing a picture
C) imitating a drawing
D) reversing a tone
E) seeing through a lens

Question 12

When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange:

A) waited all day for the woman and her family to return to their camp
B) first passed the pea-pickers' camp, but decided to turn back to take pictures
C) refused to let the prints be published
D) used actors in a studio pretending to be migrants
E) none of the other answers

Question 13

When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums?

A) 1860s
B) 1900
C) 1950s
D) 1980s
E) none of the other answers

Question 14

A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________.

A) it creates very detailed images
B) calotypes can be made very quickly
C) it records color
D) calotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced
E) it can photograph in the dark

Question 15

What was the subject of the exhibition Here is New York, A Democracy of Photographs?

A) September 11, 2001
B) the Civil War
C) U.S. Supreme Court decisions
D) Hurricane Katrina
E) all of the other answers

Question 16

The American photographer Edward Weston focused closely on the subject of his Pepper No. 30, making the viewer concentrate on the ________ and ________ of the vegetable.

A) color . . . vibrancy
B) form . . . texture
C) smell . . . taste
D) stalk . . . leaf
E) all of the other answers

Question 17

Photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective.

Question 18

The photographer of Afghan Girl was able to locate the girl many years later using ________ as a means of identification.

A) the original photograph as a wanted poster
B) iris-patterns from the original photograph
C) voice recordings made during his earlier interview
D) Facebook
E) all of the other answers

Question 19

Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine went undercover in factories and mines to expose the injustices of child labor.

Question 20

The first cameras were ________.

A) invisible
B) electric
C) room-sized
D) free
E) gas-powered

Question 21

Untitled-Passage on the Underground Railroad digitally combines:

A) the work of two different photographers
B) sculpture and photography
C) images from the past and present
D) images of trains and airplanes
E) none of the other answers

Question 22

The medium of Valley of the Shadow of Death is ________.

A) the Crimean War
B) 1855
C) color photograph
D) black-and-white photograph
E) Roger Fenton

Question 23

Loretta Lux digitally manipulates such elements as ________ to create the effect she wants in her pictures.

A) backgrounds
B) proportion
C) scale
D) color
E) all of the other answers

Question 24

The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ________.

A) passengers on a steam ship
B) child laborers
C) a mother and her children
D) new machinery
E) World War I

Question 25

What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?

A) studio style
B) snapshot aesthetic
C) photomontage Photocollage and Photomontage
D) digital manipulation
E) quick-capture

Question 26

Garry Winogrand frequently posed his subjects and set up his shots beforehand.

Question 27

Hannah Höch was part of a movement known as ________.

A) Realism
B) Cubism
C) Dada
D) Futurism
E) Romanticism